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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-09-27

The easy manner with which Secretary
Whitney has slipped out of the dilemma
resulting from his unjust treatment OF
Admiral Luce has only confirmed his
slippery qualities. His harsh and oppres-
sive treatment of John Roach placed him
in position from which only one possess
ing his peculiar characteristics could ex-
tricate himself In the fisheries affair, if
Secretary Bayard had given through
Secretary Whitney the necessary intorma-
ton for the safety of our fishermen,
Admiral Luce would not have been COM
PEELED to perform that duty tor the admin
istration. Although the affair is ex-
planned and Admiral Luce is retained in
his position, the inability or negligence
of the cabinet officials is not excused.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-09-27
Lost.

Lost.
r OST-Cluster Pin on a light necktie. between
IL Randolph and Wiscasset. The finder will re-
ceive liberal reward by leaving or sending the same
to this office. sepiSuSwu
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-09-27

The Wing learns that the store of G. Has
kell of Lee, was broken into Wednesday
night, and jewelry and other goods and small
amount of money taken. The burglars were
tracked to Lincoln where it is supposed they
took the train for Bangor Vaughan Picker
ing, three wears old, was drowned at Lee,
Sept l4ih.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-26
THE CATTLE INDUSTRY.
Reports from Thirteen States and Terri
tories-The Past Winter Considered
Favorable.
Boston telegram. /

The Commercial Bulletin publishes
special report of the range and ranch cat
tie industry. The reports are furnished
by special correspondents from thirteen
States and Territories, covering the whole
field. The conclusions arrived at indicate
that the early reports of winter losses have
been considerably exaggerated. The only
territory where cattlemen suffered severe
losses was in Montana where the NOR
tality proves to have been from Is TO 25 per
cent. on the average. The losses in Colora-
do, Western Kansas, and Northern Kansas
were very light the past winter, running
under per cent. of the average. Parts Of
Idaho and Wyoming suffered quite severely,
particularly the northwestern, but the av-
erage losses in the Territories were not ex-
cessive. Utah, New Mexico and Arizona
we've particularly fortunate. New Mexico
correspondents write that the loss does not
exceed per cent. in either of the Terri
tories named. Texas reports some suffer-
ing because of the drought, but the winter
was much more favorable to stockmen than
that OF 1856.
On the whole, the conclusion is arrived at
that the past winter was a favorable one to
the cattle-raising interests OF the West,
and that the hide and leather markets will
not feel the effect noticeably Of what fallen
hides will come upon the market. From
every section come reports of the encroach-
ments of immigrants upon the grazing
territory, and particularly from Nebraska,
Kansas, and Colorado, where the cattlemen
are being pushed steadily westward. 1t is
the opinion of some of the correspondents
that the cattle raising industry has reached
its height, and several stations report that
il is becoming necessary to raise alfalfa
| and grass for feed. The interstate COM
merce law works to the disadvantage Of
most sections, but the reports vary on this
| point.
Without exception as to q single State or
Territory, the spring season has opened
well. with an abundance Of rain and fine
outlook for grass. Cattle-raiserain Mon
tana feel much encouraged over the out
look, and feel that the favorable spring
will go far to recuperate their losses and
prevent further mortality among weak
/ cattle.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-26
for the arst quarter Of the yer yer show an

Tor tne ufbt quarter OF the year bnoW M
increase of II per cent. over 1886.
The Schuylkill region has 100 collieries.
employing &c, 500 miners, who mine 9,OOo.-
600 tons Of coal and are paid $l1, ,OOO, 900
annually In wages. There are fifty-two
collieries in the Lehigh region, employing
Is, 900 miners, and in the Wyoming region
there are 100 collieries, employing $4,000
workers who are paid $14,0OO,00 There
are in oil 281 collieries, employing SO, 200
men, who earn $50, 900, 600 per year.
General Francis A. Walker, in q recent
article on the sources of business profits,
holds that profits do not enter into the price
OF produce, and are not obtained by de-
duction from the wages of labor. In an
article on the Socialists" he claims that
no permanent unity can be maintained
among the people who advocated socialist
ic views.
Real estate matters are very active in st.
Paul, the aggregate of dealings for the
first four months OF this year amounted to
$22, 900, 900, as against $7,000,000 for the
same time last year. The building permits
SO far this year call for an expenditure OF
80. 600, 900, against 81, ,250, 600 for the same
time last year.
The American cheese manufacturers
find their Scotch market leaving them.
Last years imports at Glasgow were 3,642
tons, as against 1900 tons in 1884. The
cheese makers are told they must manu-
facture more carefully and take more pains
in shipping.
The result of the active demand for
satinets has been large increase in the
demand for shoddy suitable for such
goods. The use of shoddy and wool ex-
tract has increased during the last four
years, owing to the competition and low
price OF goods.
The New York workingmen are nearly
all busily employed, and since the 1st of
May have won good many small strikes
involving questions of unionism and wages.
There is an increased demand for ma
chinists and mechanical labor of all kinds
in. the West and Northwest. Wages have
been advanced in good many shops.
Building operations are still greatly de-
layed at Omaha, and contractors are put
about. Workmen were sent for to Kansas
City, but the Knights there were on guard.
The st. Louis printers expect to secure
the nine-hour day after Sept. ], and be-
lieve that it will be enforced generally by
the International Union.
The wages of lunabormon will lkoly DO
advanced during the coming season. The
lumbermen are compactly organized, and
are working in harmony.
The brickmakers of Terre Haute, Ind,
have decided to introduce molds into the
union brick-yard that will leave upon each
brick the union imprint.
A new mill, to cost $275,0C0, is TO be
built at Fall River, and will have 10000
spindles, to be used for the manufacture OF
yarn for the hosiery trade.
A 81 ,000,0 900 malleable iron works is to
be erected at Nashville; a bridge works al
Rome, and a rolling mill at Florence, to
cost $500
The Somerset Iron Works, in Massachu-
sets, which cost $3.50, 900, are offered fol
| $4,000.
The Union Labor party of New Yorl
will hold q State convention at Elmira
June Is.
All Of the 200 union brewers Of Sar
Francisco have been discharged.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-26
Cocoanut ami Pineapples.

Cocoanut raising ia q growing in
dustry in Southern Florida, Pine
apples and cocoanuts pay very we'll.
Ten thousand p.neapples can be ra sod,
it is said, to an acre, and the same
amount of space VII support fifty CO.
coanut trees. The latter require very
little cult vation. They beg to bear
at from 8 to IL years of age and pro-
duce from eighty to one hundred and
fifty Luts to tho tree, They br ng
about five cents ap ece to the grower.
Many groves have been planted with n
q few years. One New Jersey gentle
man has $50, coo trees.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-26
knights of Labor.

The New Haven Knights will form CO.
operative association to run grocery store.
A ladies' assembly of Knights has just
been organized in Wheeling. The Gin
cinnati Knights are TO hold O grand picnic
at Pallor Grove. June 20. John w. Hayes,
of the General Executive Board, has re-
ceived $4,000 for the loss of an arm while
employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company several years ago. The Holli-
day (Pa.) Knights will shortly start q CO.
operative store with capital of $4,000.
Isaiah Tuppins, the colored man, was elect
ed Mayor of Glennville, Ohio, by the
Knights. Some bricklayers Of Chesterton,
Ind, have started a cooperative brick yard
al Porter Station, which will employ $50 men
when working full. The Chicago boot and
shoe knights have organized a cooper
alive shop with $25, 900 capital. The no.
torious Mrs. Parsons is q member of AS
sembly No. 1924, Jersey City. The San
Diego California; Knights elected a full
ticket at the recent election. District As
sembly No. Al, of Baltimore, now includes
the entire State of Maryland. A Missis-
sippi assembly fines any member caught in.
toxicated, $2 for the first offense and 81
for the second, and for the third offens,
the penalty is expulsion.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-26
Industrial and Labor Notes.

A 81, 200, 900 company, composed largely
Of Philadelphians, is about introducing q
new incandescent light system at st. Louis.
A 800, 900 tack and nail company is about
starting business at East ST. Louis. A
$100,000 company has been organized for
manufacturing hay-knives at East Wilton,
Me. A Buffalo scale company has Just
booked contract for sixteen 30, ,000-p pound
scales. The Cleveland ship-yards arc
overrun with boat orders. A Reading
founder hos Just booked an order for three
very large cotton presses. The first one to
be made will weigh $50 tons. The Bethle-
hem Iron Company has 800 men on its pay
rolls.
The steam engine manufacturing COM
panies throughout the East are oil running
full force Of men, and the managers re-
port fiattering prospects. A new cotton
mill is TO be built ut Holyoke, 344 feet
long by IS feet wild +, which will have 30,-
600 spindles. The Weayers of Fall River,
Mass, are about forming an organization
similar to the Spinners Union. Weaving
has been advanced l2i per cent. at the
Troy blanket mills. Manchester cotton
mill company has Just put in 1,000-horse
power engine. A new silk-mill has Just
been started in Mansfield, Conn,
Rail makers and the manufacturers oI
railway material generally are predicting
an improving demand for material, on ac-
count Of the steady increase of earnings
on the leading railroads. The improving
commercial reports are also stimulating
confidence, and leading 10 an enlargement
Of industrial operations. The reports ol
earnings OF thirty eight railroad companies
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-26
BAsE-BALL
News, Notes, and Gossip Aneni
the Great National
Game.
Detroit Ahead In the Race for the
Champion Pennant OF the
League.
[cHIcAao coRREsPoNpENcE. /

CHICAGO CORRESP ONDENCE.
The last game of the first home season
took place between the Western clubs at
Chicago and Pittsburgh Saturday, and
upon the same evening they departed for
their first tour OF the year among the East
ern cities of the League. On Satul day
the first fifteen days of the season had
passed, and at the close of that
days games we find - Just as
might be expected under the new rules
the heaviest batting club OF the organiza-
tion good four lengths in the lead OF its
nearest competitor in the race. Detroit
has been playing magnificent ball ever
since the season opened. Not only 10 1t
batting powerfully, but its fielding strength
is greater and it's team works better in every
particular than that of last year. In Getzein
and CAMEL it has q battery that is working
with much effect under the revised rules,
and il is needless to say that the old out
and infield is as strong as money a1d en-
terprise could get together.
Those who feel interest enough in the
race TO exercise their judgment in picking
a winner will probably not fall far short in
selecting Captain Hanlon's team as that
which will carry off the League pennant of
1887. Boston is playing strong ball
stronger good deal than it was anticipat-
ed it would play Mike Kellys presence
in the team seems TO have had just the eff
feet generally anticipated, viz: that of
imbuing it with the winning spirit which
SO long characterized the Chicago team
while Mike was with it.
Philadelphia and Pittsburg, too, are
each playing rafting, determined game,
while New York and Chicago, from both
of which was expected 80 much, are good
deal further down in the list than they
should be. Particularly is this true of New
York, which in many quarters was looked
upon aa the fanniad candidate in the
League race. Their record win show such
confidence to have been the result of mis-
Judgment, however, for New York is play
Ing at present a much poorer game even
than it played last year. 1t would seem
that it needs a general wedding out, from
manager down TO mascot, and the sooner il
comes the better. The following table
will show the record of the clubs up to
Sunday, May 15
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-26
OUR INDUSTRIES.
Among the Mills, Mines, and Furnaces
Points or Interest In the
Labor Horizon.
Notes Gathered from Workshops, Mines
Railroads, and Other Busy
Places.
the Cbicaeo Strike and Lockout.

The Chicago Strike and Lockout.
In Chicago, the chief seat of trade dis
turbances in this country, strike of the
bricklaycs has been answered by q lockout
on thepart Of their employers. AS imme-
diate results not only are many thousands
of workingmen threatened with loss of en-
ployment, but great business interests in
timately associated with the city's welfare
are endangered. In its origin the quarrel
was Of comparatively small moment.
The bricklayers demanded that pay
day be changed from Tuesday to
Saturday, and that slight advance
be made in wages, threatening a general
strike if their demands should not be COM
piled with. Instead Of yielding, the Mas
ter Builders Association responded with a
circular ordering complete suspension OF
work. 1t is estimated that by this COM
bined movement of strike and lockout no
fewer than $4,000 workingmen will be
thrown out of employment. Moreover, as
is usual in such cases, among the worst
sufferers will be multitudes of families
whose heads have not had the slightest
share in originating the conflict.
In behalf of the master builders the
claim is made that this extreme measure OF
lockout was taken in self-defense. The
suspension of business operations in the
most favorable season of the year for
building will be accompanied by great
losses, and for this reason the builders say
they would not have resorted to lockout
except from the necessity of resisting arro-
CANT dictation on the part of their en-
ployes. To the Bricklayers' Association
belong nearly all the bricklayers and ma
sons of Chicago. 1t is a local guild
that has no connection with either
OF the national organizations of Ia
Dor. Strange workingmen arc not adj
mitted to the association, and the GER
tifcates of membership of other labor
unions are not recognized. Resident
masons and bricklayers, whether belong
ing to the organization or not, must pay
into its treasury an initiation fee OF $75
for the privilege of working at the high
wages paid in Chicago. There are other
rules of the association under which the
master builders have chafed, and when the
last demand was made upon them they de-
termined upon resistance.
This is the excuse given by the master
builders of Chicago for q lockout which. II
continued for the season, must be attended
by the most serious consequences.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-26
Indiana's Big Gas Boom.

The discovery of natural gas in Indiana,
at various and distant points with varying
pressures, indicates a multiplicity of reser-
voirs that are but feebly connected with
one another, if, indeed, they be connected
at all. The first well struck in Indiana has
been giving out 100000 cubic feet per
day, and since then two other wells have
been bored in the immediate vicinity, from
which still greater volumes are obtained.
Well known as No. 2, which was struck on
the 31st of November, has been flowing
ever since at rate of 100000 cubic feet
per dav. 1t is 916 feet 6 inches deep.
Well No. 8 is 9l2 feet deep, and flows
1000, 900 cubic feet per day. Manufacture
ing enterprises will be trnnsplanted TO that
locality as soon as possible.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-26
Influx of Toreign Labor.

The extraordinary influx OF foreign labor
threatens in time to affect the rate of wages
paid. The majority of the newcomers are
seeking agricultural employment, and will
in time become valuable consumers for our
shop and mill products. The rush will
continue for months to come, and it will be
some time after the inducements disappear
before the rush will be over. Skilled labor
ia anxious to escape from Europe and
Great Britain as common or farm labor,
and more or less correspondence is going
on between the trades unions on both sides
relative TO opportunities here.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-26
IoMn LinnOr Decision.

Lange and Graf. Muscatino brewers,
were recently thrown into Jail for refusing
to pay fines of 5000 and costs inflicted by
two justices OF the peace on sevefal counts
in q single Information. Judge LefIing-
we'll has granted them a supersedeas, hold
ing that the justices exceeded the constitu-
tional limit in imposing the fine; that the
information had no right 10 Include two
persons, and that q justice OF the peace
has no authority to enter more than one
judgment.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-26

The Firemen's Tournament To- be held
at Romeo, Thursday, June l6, Is an assured
fact. The committee are diligently a.
work to make the meeting success. About
1000 1remen are expected TO bo present.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-26

For the first time in the history of Oge-
nav County, the proceedings of the Board
Of Supervisors will not be published in
either county paper unless the publishers
see it TO inform the public Of what their
servants are doing and donate il to the,
county.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-26

In the days of Rome's greatest pros
perity-that is. during the reign OF
Augustus-the circumference of the
city inclosed by walls was about twenty
milaa.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-26

WILLIAM STUYvEsANr FISH, of New
York, has been elected President of the
Illinois Central Railroad, vice DIR. James
@. Clark, resigned.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-26

The Vedas, the sacred books of the
Brahminic religion, are believed to be
1890 years old-that is, to date back
as far as 1000 B. @.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-26

HoPeRowERs in Central New York are
discouraged at the gloomy prospects. The
crop promises TO prove almost q total
failure.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-26
a SUDDEN CALL.
Death of William B. Woods, Associate
Justice Of the United States Su-
preme Court.
Sketch or HIS Career at the Bar, II
the Army, and as a Leg
islatOr.
washington speciaI.l

Justice William b. Woods, of the United
States Supreme Court, died here on Satur-
day. He had been unable from dropsical
and kidney troubles to perform any judicial
duties for nearly year, and spent the fall
and winter in California. William b.
Woods was born in Newark, Ohio, sixty
one or two years ago, graduated at Yale
College in 1845, and began the practice
of law in Ohio in l847. From 1857 to
1861 he was Democratic member of the
State House of Representatives, and for one
term was the Speaker. When the war broke
out he entered the Federal service, and
went to the front as Lieutenant Colonel of
the Seventy sixth Ohio Infantry, and
served through the war with that regiment,
being mustered out of the service with the
grade of Brigadier and brevet Major Gen
eral. He Immediately settled down in
Alabama, and was chosen State Chancellor
for term Of six years. In 1869, while he
was resident of Mobile, President Grant
appointed him United States Circuit Judge
for the Fifth Circuit. When Justice Strong
retired from the Supreme Court in Decem-
ber, 1880, President Hayes appointed Judge
Woods, then living in Atlanta, his sue
cessor. Although he was q carpet bagger
in the South and the Senate was Demo-
cratic, the Judiciary Committee reported
his nomination fayorably, and there were
but eight votes against his confirmation. A
motion was made TO reconsider, but the
Senate did not retract its assent TO his ap-
poinment. Immediately upon his nomina-
tion the bars Of Atlanta, Savannah, Mobile,
Montgomery. Huntsville, San Antonio,
New Orleans, and Jacksonville memorial
lied the Senators from their respective
States to confirm the appointment.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-26

ADAM had to be tempted to eat the
apple, but Yankee drinks appleiack
I aturally.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-26

MoTro for o corset factoy-"we have
come to stay. Cleveland Sun.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-26
Justice Woods Vacant Seat.
Washington special.1

Some pretty shrewd and well-informed
Democrats here are confident that Attorney
General Garland will be appointed 10 sue
ceed Justice Woods. They put the thing
in this way: IL the President had been
dissatisfied with the course Of the Attorney
General during the last two years, be would
have got him out of the Cabinet. His re-
tention OF him is evidence that lie is en-
tirely satisfied with the uprightness of his
conduct. That being so, the Attorney
General has been prosecuted, and
the President is under some obliga-
ton to vindicate him, or at least he may be
supposed to be anxious to do SO. Besides,
there would be fine stroke OF politics in
putting the Attorney General on the Su-
preme bench. The attacks on Mr.. Gar
land have been to large extent attacks on
the administration. The vindication of
Mr.. Garland would be the vindication Of
the administration. If nominated, Mr..
Garland would certainly be confirmed, and
IL he were promoted from the Cabinet to
the Supreme Court the administration
would be vindicated at the point where it
has been most sharply assailed. Secretary
Endicott has been suggested, but no one can
really expect that the President would ap-
pointa Massachusetts man in the Southern
circuit. Speaker Carlisle has been men,
toned, but it is believed that his ambitions
are political rather than judicial. He does
not live in the Fifth Circuit. and there is
already one Kentuckian ON the bench.
Senators Pugh and George have been
spoken of. Both are members of the Sem
ate Judiciary Committee, and Senator
George has been Chief Justice of Missis-
sippi. Both live in the Fifth Circuit, but
George is sixty years OF age and Pugh is
sixty six. The name Of Secretary Bayard
is freely spoken of in connection with the
vacancy.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-01-06
The spinnine-WheeI.

She breaks the thread with angry twang, =
Just as II her touch q harpetFing rang
And keyed TO the quaint old song she sang
That csme to a halt on her cherry lip
While she tied knot that never could slip
Az laden with dreams I'm splendid guise-
Should sail right out Z the azure skies
And lover bring, With great brown eyes
Ali broad the day. but her work was done
Her two score knots by set Of sun.
With her one. two, three. the wheel beside.
And the three. two, one, OF her backward
glide.
So to and fro in her calico pride
In her apron white as the While sea foam.
She gathered the wealth Of her velvet gloom,
And rallied ii in with tall back comb.
She crushed the dews with her naked feet;
The track OF the sun was q golden street,
The grass was cool and the air was sweet.
The girl gazed up at the mackerel sky,
And IL looked like q pattern lifted high,
But she never dreamed OF angels uigh.
And she spoke right on: do Just see thereI
What a blue aud willie for the c.ouded pair
I'm going 10 knit for my Sunday wearr'
The wheel is dead, ard the bees are gone,
And the Pirkis dressed in a silver lawn,
And her feet are shod In golden dawn!
Oh! brow that the oli-iime morisj lg kissed,
Good night. my girl of The double ard Nv ST
Obi barefoot vision! Vanishing mis-
Buffalo Express